The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE HOUSING QUESTION 43 Finally, as to the men’s output. The steady fall of prices in a year from £950 to £500 tells its own tale. Every architect and surveyor in England knows how greatly output has increased in the last 18 months. Charts prepared by a Ministry of Health official, from statistics covering the erection of thousands of houses between June and November, 1921, shewed that in that period the output of plasterers and bricklayers increased by 50 per cent., and of slaters by 75 per cent. Let us quote the witness of the National Housing and Town Planning Council on this subject (their Weekly Statement of 16th April, 1921) :— “ Enquiries made over a large number of areas demonstrate the erroneous character of many statements made as to the number of bricks laid per day. The normal number of bricks laid in cottage schemes is over 500 per day. “ Over the whole of the Manchester City Council schemes on which 475 bricklayers are now employed (as compared with 48 last summer) the average is greater than this. " In a typical Home Counties town (Aylesbury) the Chairman of the Housing Committee—a builder—states that the average has never fallen below 600 a day. " Concerning the possibilities of laying a greater number of bricks per day in cottage work, it is pointed out that there is much misunderstanding. A modern ' Balbus' can lay 1,000 bricks a day in the construction of a simple wall surrounding an estate. But the most skilful bricklayer cannot greatly exceed 200 a day in the construction of the flues of a cottage chimney carried through the roof. “ For this and similar reasons, those familiar with the actual operations of cottage building regard with a large measure of good-humoured scepticism the stories which are told, wherever male gossips congregate, as to the sins of the bricklayers. These

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